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Community Health Promoter

Women Activities & Social Service Association (WASSA)
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Position Title: Community Health Promoter

2024-12-05    Badghis     Full Time     101

Job Location: Badghis
Nationality: Afghan
Category: Health Care
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: Based on WASSA salary's Scale
Vacancy Number: W-HRT-257
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Badghis Province - Qormach District
Organization: Women Activities & Social Service Association (WASSA)
Years of Experience: At least 2 years’ experience in the field of health and nutrition promotion.
Contract Duration: Until Mar-2025 with extension possibility
Gender: Female
Education: Graduate from recognized institute (Public health, Nursing, midwifery)
Close date: 2024-12-05

About Women Activities & Social Service Association (WASSA):

Women Activities & Social Service Association (WASSA) established in 2002 in Afghanistan, as non-governmental organization, committed to seeking ways for women empowerment in Afghanistan. WASSA aims to promote women equal participation in socio-economic sectors of the country. WASSA works directly with communities in order to bring change in social attitude of the community regarding women.

An envision “Equal participation of women & men in all sectors of the country.

  • Equal Opportunities: WASSA is dedicated to offering equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, or disability.
  • Safeguarding and Conduct: WASSA will contact previous employers to inquire about any history of sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment during the candidate's employment, including incidents under investigation at the time the candidate left. Job offers are conditional on satisfactory reference checks. By applying, candidates confirm they understand and accept these procedures.
  • Final Selection: The selected candidate must pass a background check and reference check. They will also be required to sign WASSA's Code of Conduct, PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), Safeguarding, and other relevant policies before receiving a final job offer/contract.

Job Descriptions:

 

Job Summary

  • To support the project in implementation of health care services to community at CHC and BHC level.
  • To promote communities in health awareness and community engagement.
  • To mobilize communities in participation to community dialogues and health promotion.
  • To empower women in the communities to engage and participate in community health promotion process
  • To assist the project team at CHC/BHC in overall project implementation and management

 

Duties & Responsibilities

Objective 1: Implementation community-based health and protection promotion

  • Establish community –based health and nutrition promotion committees (male & female) in the catchment areas.
  • Conduct project orientation and mobilization sessions with local community elders/men and women in the communities and catchment areas as well as at the center.
  • Plan, organize and realize daily and monthly orientation sessions, according to the methodology defined, regarding health/relevant messaged to the health and protection.
  • Organize regular community sensitization sessions for beneficiaries.
  • Record the necessary information in the relevant reporting tools.

 

Objective2: Performing health and nutrition education and awareness sessions:

  • Prepared all the material for the health and promotion education sessions
  • Conduct regular health/ nutrition and community health education sessions to all clients.
  • Promote behavior changes of clients on health/nutrition and MHPSS catchment areas.
  • Distribute program relevant items/inputs to BNFs in the centers and catchment areas.
  • Record all information in the designed/validated reporting tools.

 

Objective 3: Represent the organization and project at community level and at the center

  • Present the professional image of the organization related program to relevant communities.
  • Respect for the principals and values of the organization in the framework of the partnership.
  • Develop contacts and explain to stakeholders and populations the activities and the objectives of the programs.
  • Represent the organization with the beneficiaries with the agreement of the health supervisor.
  • Inform local authorities about all aspects of the programs
  • Involve and inform the communities in the implementation of the program
  • Conduct the community dialogues and meetings with communities on the health promotion

 

Objective 4: Perform and execute the planned activities of community health promotion.

  • Perform screening, plans, implementation and monitoring of promotion outputs at community level.
  • To facilitate engagement of the community people with the health centers at the field
  • Identify health awareness training needs among community health workers and develop training programs.
  • Facilitate the health care services of the health centers to the beneficiaries
  • Assist the health center team in all the clinical activities and wards
  • Facilitate the first aid trainings and kit distributions
  • Collect all the reports of CHWs and monitor health posts
  • Assessing and Contributing to properly forge the medical expectations of the target population, in a way of positively affecting their Health seeking behavior
  • Facilitate the referral pathway of the referred clients to other centers
  • Regular Visit of communities that are under his/her responsibility
  • Keep record of all screened BNFs in the relevant reporting tools.

Job Requirements:

  • Graduate from recognized institute (Public health, Nursing, midwifery).
  • At least 2 years’ experience in the field of health and nutrition promotion.
  • Having experiences in the field of health and nutrition at community level and health centers .
  • Experience in behavioral change promotion is preferred.
  • Experience in health care service delivery
  • Excellent communication with communities
  • Good training & demonstration skills
  • Having a high flexibility level
  • Good planning, organizing and reporting kills.
  • Ability to manage working environment according to local culture
  • Fluent in local languages (Dari & Pashto), Knowledge of English language is a plus.
  • Knowledge of intervention area is a plus
  • Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results
  • Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate

Submission Guidelines:

  • Interested qualified candidates should submit their information/request thourgh this link (https://airtable.com/appUgbN6AnloxgDIY/shrFVvQdbbfn6Udq8).
  • Academic certificates or references do not need to be submitted at this time. These will be requested if called for an interview.
  • Only short-listed candidates will be invited for written tests and interviews upon project approval.

Submission Email:

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